Many surfers on the web are not familiar with RSS feeds nor do they own an aggregator to collect news automatically. Those "old-fashioned internet citizens" gather information by opening websites one after the other and scanning ...

Beside many other interesting presentations and talks there were two exciting projects I learned about at the Eclipse Summit Europe 2008.
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On Wednesday, Olivier Moïses, the lead of wazaabi, ...

Today, the Eclipse Summit Europe 2008 starts with different symposia reaching from embedded runtimes over banking industry to test-driven development to name a few. At the Modeling Symposium Peter and me presented a position paper that outlines ...

Two weeks ago I joined itemis AG, a company that offers consultancy and focuses on model-driven software development. Even though our main office is located in Lünen near Dortmund you will find me at our office in Kiel.
Sven, ...

Today Google released Chrome and what should I say: I am really impressed! It's an open-source browser that picked me up with a nice comic that explains some of Google's ideas behind it. Starting with a slick ...

A few weeks ago, I started to port a context-sensitive phonetic string conversion algorithm to c#. It is called phonet4n and is hosted at sourceforge.net. Using its class Phonetizer one can easily transform different spellings of German ...

Heiko Behrens

is a programmer, author, and public speaker with more than a decade of commercial software development, technical writing, and on-stage presentation experience. As an active committer at Eclipse and as an involved participant in numerous other open source projects, he has in-depth experience in a broad range of technologies. His startup BeamApp, still in stealth mode, is focussed on mobile application development, both native cross-platform and web-based.